2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cinematography Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 7,768 people earned their degree in film and video production, making the major the 117th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 523 film and video production graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 film and video production graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cinematography Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in film and video production. That schools that top this list have a program in film and video production in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cinematography Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cinematography Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Film & Video Production in the Southwest Region

1

Baylor University
Waco, Texas

#17 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cinematography Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #1 spot on the list. Baylor is a private not-for-profit institution located in Waco, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Film & Video Production at Baylor

2

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Cinematography Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern Methodist University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 27 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Southern Methodist University Film & Video Production Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Film & Video Production

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.